2012 PENN / NYU CONFERENCE

EIGHTH ANNUAL
PENN / NYU CONFERENCE ON LAW AND FINANCE

Jointly sponsored by
the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics,
Wharton’s Financial Institutions Center,
and New York University’s Center for Law & Business.

Friday, FEBRUARY 24, 2012
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Saturday, FEBRUARY 25, 2012
8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Levy Conference Center
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Entrance on 34th Street between Chestnut and Sansom
Directions to Penn Law

By invitation only

Conference Organizers

William T. Allen
Nusbaum Professor of Law and Business
New York University School of Law

Yakov Amihud
Ira Rennert Professor of Finance
Stern School of Business
New York University

Jill E. Fisch
Perry Golkin Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School

Itay Goldstein
Associate Professor of Finance
The Wharton School

Conference Schedule

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24
9:30 a.m.	Registration and Breakfast
10:00 a.m	Welcoming Remarks Michael A. Fitts Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law University of Pennsylvania Law School
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.	Philip Bond Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Vincent Glode The Wharton School Bankers and Regulators Commentator: Eric L. Talley University of California, Berkeley School of Law Moderator: Hon. Jack B. Jacobs Supreme Court of Delaware
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Jonah B. Gelbach Yale Law School Eric Helland The Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, Claremont McKenna College Jonathan Klick University of Pennsylvania Law School Valid Inference in Single-Firm, Single-Event Studies Commentator: Stephen J. Brown Stern School of Business, New York University Moderator: Hon. Jack B. Jacobs Supreme Court of Delaware
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.	David Yermack Stern School of Business, New York University Tailspotting: What Can Investors Learn by Tracking the Flights of Corporate Jets? Commentator: Katherine V. Litvak Northwestern University School of Law Moderator: Itay Goldstein The Wharton School
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.	Stephen J. Choi New York University School of Law A.C. Pritchard The University of Michigan Law School Anat Carmy Wiechman New York University School of Law Scandal Enforcement at the SEC: Salience and the Arc of the Option Backdating Investigations Commentator: D. Scott Lee Mays Business School, Texas A&M University Moderator: Itay Goldstein The Wharton School
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.	Jonathan Cohn McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin Stuart Gillan Rawls College of Business Administration, Texas Tech University Jay Hartzell McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin On Enhancing Shareholder Control: A (Dodd-) Frank Assessment of Proxy Access Commentator: Ryan Bubb New York University School of Law Moderator: Itay Goldstein The Wharton School

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25
8:30 a.m.	Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.	John C. Coates Harvard Law School Managing Disputes Through Contract: Evidence from M&A Commentator: S. Viswanathan The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University Moderator: Hon. Donald F. Parsons, Jr. Delaware Court of Chancery
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.	Gustavo Grullon Rice University Sebastien Michenaud Rice University James Weston Rice University The Real Effects of Stock Market Prices Commentator: Holger Spamann Harvard Law School Moderator: Hon. Donald F. Parsons, Jr. Delaware Court of Chancery
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Christopher Mayer Columbia Business School Edward Morrison Columbia Law School Tomasz Piskorski Columbia Business School Arpit Gupta Columbia Business School Mortgage Modification and Strategic Behavior: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide Commentator: Manju Puri The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University Moderator: Richard E. Kihlstrom The Wharton School
12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Closing Remarks

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